I'm going to see Robert Plant & Alison Krauss!!!
AND I'M GOING FREE!!!!
Before I get into that... Happy Belated Birthday wowsugarpuss! Hope you had a great day.
So how am I getting to go to the Robert Plant & Alison Krauss concert GRATIS? I used what I like to call MARS-FU. I was sitting in traffic on Interstate 10 this morning (heading towards the teen camp) and was listening to Dean and Rog on 93.7fm. They do a weekly ticket give away contest called "Dead Person In the Envelope." Basically, they have a name of a dead person, you can call and ask one question to try to get a clue as to who it is, then the first caller to guess the right name gets the tix. When I started listening, the clues that had already been revealed were a) It's a female, b) she was a writer, c) she was British and d) she lived during WW2. Of course, I immediately thought about Agatha Christie. So I pulled out my trusty Sidekick and went to google Christie to find out exactly when she died. However, when the Google search page came up, the logo had been redesigned with Peter Rabbit in it to commemorate Beatrix Potter's birthday. Lightbulb went off in my head. I googled Beatrix Potter instead. Sure enough, she died in 1943 while WW2 was still raging. Bingo. So I called the radio station. And called and called and called and.... FINALLY GOT THROUGH! I got on the air and they asked me what my question was. I asked, "Did she write childrens books?" Their answer was "yes." I answered Beatrix Potter. FTW!!! I will be going to the concert on September 26th. I am SOOOOO excited!!